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Re: newbie question



Of course this isn't always a painless process.

Chris

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:14, Seneca wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:32:03PM +0530, JK Malakar wrote:
> > how to upgrade the existing debian version without reinstalling ?
> > (for an ex. potato to woody)
> 
> Change the appropriate lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.  If, for
> instance, your system had used potato, you could just change the lines
> in that file that contained "potato" to "woody" or "stable".  After
> that, just "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade".
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